Meshiaak Mask Of All Misery

When the Australian Thrash-Metal quartet Meshiaak let their debut album beast "Alliance of Thieves" off the leash a good three years ago, with hints of Megadeth, Metallica, Machine Head, or Alice in Chains and Slipknot, they ran open doors with it. Both genre fans and critics alike have responded to this celebrated mix of powerful power metal, progressively structured longer tracks and all sorts of high-speed descents. The magazine Classic Rock celebrated "Alliance of Thieves" as a "mixture of brooding progressive rock and heavy rock", and Metal Hammer praised the record as an imaginatively performed "attack with modern power and thrash metal". Danny Camilleri and Dean Wells are responsible for Meshiaak's second album "Mask Of All Misery" as a well-rehearsed songwriter team. The album was recorded in Well's own studio in Melbourne, the production was done by Wells himself. Among the highlights and hints of the ten tracks to be heard on "Mask Of All Misery" are the brute opener "Miasma", the dramatic melodic "Bury The Bodies" as well as the heavy metal breakers "City Of Ghosts", "Face of Stone" and "In The Final Hour".